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Dividends
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013
Dividends, Common Stock [Abstract]  
DIVIDENDS
DIVIDENDS
Cash dividends per common share for the year ended December 31, 2012 included an accelerated cash dividend of $0.0425 per share of common stock totaling $2.5 million paid on December 27, 2012 to shareholders of record as of December 18, 2012. The accelerated dividend was in lieu of the quarterly dividend that the Company would have otherwise announced with its quarterly financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, and that would have been paid in February of 2013.

On January 26, 2012, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.04 per outstanding share of common stock. The aggregate payment of $2.5 million was made on February 22, 2012 to shareholders of record as of February 8, 2012.